Ramen Review

Now, here we have a document titled
NATO IN AFGHANISTAN
MASTER NARRATIVE AS AT 6 October 2008
A bit obsolete, but nonetheless… It is part of a batch of documents liberated by the good people at Wikileaks. As they dryly remark,

The encryption password is progress, which perhaps reflects the Pentagon’s desire to stay on-message, even to itself.

Said “password” also “encrypted” the three other documents. Note that Wikileaks is intelligent enough not to submit the password of one Chris Riley, to whom the … read more

See also this Onion spoof act of clairvoyance.

“… the biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq.”
(George W. Bush, December 1st, 2008)

No.
The biggest regret — the only regret — is that Barbara Pierce Bush did not, shortly after V-J Day, speak the magic words:

“George Herbert Walker, pull out before you cum.”

I was wrong about the “friends” of Pakistan. The formal name is “Friends of Democratic Pakistan Initiative”; in any case it is not a bunch of Quran students. Still, I guess an informal transnational group containing the EU, the PRC, the UAE, the UN, and the US is interested in applied heavy atom physics too. Everybody likes nukes. Anyway, in this case Steini is likely to be part of the team too.
He is not a good man. He is efficient … read more

Pakistan… oh well, Pakistan. And Afghanistan. And Taliban. And tawhid. OK, one thing after another. So…
Abdullah Abdullah! Wow! What has he been doing all the time?
It really seems this is Dr. Abdullah — the Dr. Abdullah, the main man, the living legend, the one and only. Field surgeon during the Soviet Occupation. Homie of Shah Massoud. Temporary foreign minister after the Taliban were driven from Kabul. Considered to be a Qanuni man and consequently got muscled out eventually by … read more